Director, Property Delivery & Transformation

Birmingham, Glasgow, York

Working at the heart of government, the Director, Property Delivery and Transformation, supports the Government Property Function in setting the strategic vision for the vast government estate, working across government departments, agencies, and arms-length bodies, and leading on the delivery of cross-cutting, transformational property programmes.

The broad range of programmes includes Better Buildings, One Public Estate, FM, Place Pilots and InSite/data. Leading high-performing teams in OGP, you will provide expert advice and challenge to departments on property-related performance, together enabling a more efficient, sustainable government estate. 

This is a unique opportunity for a senior property professional to drive the functional agenda, and through leadership of the many cross-cutting programmes, enabling the realisation of the ambitions set out in the Government Property Strategy 2022-2030.

The successful candidate will be a part of the cross-Government community of 7000+ property professionals, with benefits including: access to a diverse community of property professionals across government for sharing best practice; Government- and industry-led CPD; and a comprehensive career framework and learning and development curriculum to support your career journey across the UK’s largest estate.

Key Responsibilities include:

Lead cross-cutting programmes (and, in some cases, act as the Senior Responsible Officer) to deliver the Government Property Strategy including:

• The award-winning One Public Estate programme, delivered in partnership with the Local Government Association, supporting c.1,000 projects, including bringing public services together under one roof and improving access to services;
• Driving the function’s work on cross-sector place-shaping collaboration through our Place Pilots;
• Disposals and efficiency programme, delivering £1.5bn in capital receipts and £0.5bn in revenue savings by 2025;
• The Better Buildings programme, tackling maintenance and safety issues where they exist in the government estate, including issues such as Reinforced Autoclaved Aerated Concrete (RAAC) and ;
• Improving Facilities Management across the estate through a 10-year strategy and new standards including effective operation of the Facilities Management Spend Control to ensure Government departments comply with the Government Property Strategy and spend control policy

For more information on key responsibilities please view the attached candidate information pack. 

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The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate:

• Property professional qualification and / or membership of a relevant professional body e.g. ICE, RICS, IWFM;

• Substantial evidence of leading property operations across some/all of the property lifecycle (transactions, projects, FM operations);

• Proven track record of securing the confidence of senior stakeholders within and outside your organisation and in successfully managing conflicting views;

• Evidence of working with ambiguity and complexity in a property field, ability to develop policy, secure buy-in to a vision, develop plans and implement into delivery; and

• Successful experience of leading and managing a strategic agenda and delivering a challenging property change programme, alongside digital transformation, in a complex environment.

Alongside your salary of £97,000, Cabinet Office contributes
£26,190 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme.

Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

This role has a minimum assignment duration of 3 years. An assignment duration
is the period of time a Senior Civil Servant is expected to remain in the same post to enable them
to deliver on the agreed key business outcomes. The assignment duration also supports your career through
building your depth of expertise.

As part of accepting this role you will be agreeing to the expected assignment duration set out above.
This will not result in a contractual change to your terms and conditions.
Please note this is an expectation only, it is not something which is written into your terms and
conditions or indeed which the employing organisation or you are bound by. It will depend on your
personal circumstances at a particular time and business needs, for example, would not preclude any
absence like family friendly leave. It is nonetheless an important expectation, which is why we ask you
to confirm you agree to the assignment duration set out above.

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Job contact :

• Name : Sharon Kooner
• Email : sharon.kooner@cabinetoffice.gov.uk

Recruitment team

• Email : sharon.kooner@cabinetoffice.gov.uk